Recovery Diva

MAY 7, 2022

Book Review: The Invention of Disaster: Power of Knowledge in Discourses of Hazard and Vulnerability. Publisher : Routledge by Taylor and Francis Group London and New York. The book is part of Routledge Studies in Hazards, Disaster Risk and Climate Change. Series Editor: Ilan Kelman. For more information: [link].

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Risk Reduction Hazard Natural Hazard Vulnerability 113

Emergency Planning

MAY 30, 2019

The United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction was born out of the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, 1990-2000. On 1 May 2019 it was renamed the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction. These may be published separately in an academic journal. GNCSODR 2015. UNISDR 2015.

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Risk Reduction Natural Hazard All-Hazards Hazard 130

Emergency Planning

AUGUST 20, 2021

In 1978 the architect Ian Davis published a small book entitled Shelter After Disaster , [iv] which included a number of well-chosen exposés of post-disaster housing as architectural fantasy rather than useful dwelling place. Nowhere more than in Haiti has disaster been made inevitable by the nexus of poverty and vulnerability.

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Vulnerability All-Hazards Risk Reduction Government 174